Jean Champion

Day for Night -- FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT's sly, humorous Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (1973) that speaks the language of everyone who loves movies.

This surging screen adventure is set at the end of World War I. Major Foster and his Legionnaires have been ordered to protect an archaeological expedition led by Francois Marneau. Foster is opposed to the excavation of a priceless tomb in Morocco. He not only considers it grave robbing, he also knows the last expedition there was destroyed, along with its Legionnaire guards. But Foster follows his orders. In Morocco, Foster battles the forces who are out to stop the expedition. The attacks slaughter thousands and end only when Foster is killed. Only Marco is left to take up the cavalry of his fallen friend and commander.

Philippe Noiret portrays a French major who is supervising the gruesome task of counting and identifying the corpses still strewn over the battlefield post-World War I. Noiret is obsessed with the notion that, by doing his job above and beyond the call of duty, he can somehow make up for the carnage in which he participated a few years earlier.

Major William Sherman Foster, a soldier who has been kicked out of West Point, has managed to obtain command of a group of Legionnaires after the end of World War I. His troops have been ordered to accompany an expedition traveling to Morocco.